• Delphia@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    The weird part about these is sometimes the results are absolutely fire as long as you use a little common sense.

    Its possible to bake an amazing chocolate cake by replacing the eggs and oil with mayonaise and a great Vanilla cake by replacing the milk and sugar with melted ice cream.

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      Replacing eggs and oil with mayonnaise?

      Milk and sugar replaced with melted ice cream?

      You’re just substituting two things with one thing that is made almost entirely from those two things.

      Like yes, eggs and oil are a great replacement for eggs and oil.

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        19 days ago

        It still sounds insane at first until you think about it. “I’m baking a chocolate cake, fetch the mayonaise” Is not normal behavior.

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            19 days ago

            Theres also a great chocolate cake recipe that involves a can of pickled beets I cant wait to try.

            B Dylan Hollis on youtube does a lot of vintage recipes, some with seemingly insane substitutions but some of them work out really well. Theres a bunch he does that I still want to try. The disgusting ones are just entertaining.

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          19 days ago

          Nor should it be unless it’s the exact same ratio of those ingredients as is in the substitute.

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          18 days ago

          I would only do this if I seriously wanted to annoy someone looking over my shoulder while baking.

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        19 days ago

        Whenever I’m thirsty I just drink a liquefied byproduct of hydrogen and oxygen combustion instead of water